Have you ever wondered how you might have voted as a member of a long-ago jury if called upon to render a fateful opinion? The Salem Witch Trials? The Nuremberg Trials? The U.S. Justice Department and whether it had made mistakes? Well, soon, you will have the chance for deliberation.
On Feb. 18 at 6 p.m., at Florida A&M’s Lee Hall Auditorium, you, along with 10 members of an on-stage jury will “participate” in a dramatic trial.
In perfect alignment with Black History Month, Quincy-native Chad Lawson Cooper will bring to Tallahassee his production of his own off-Broadway play, “The Descendants Speak.”
Testifying in the “witness stand” will be Harriet Tubman and Dr. W.E.B DuBois enlightening the jury of other actors as to the racism that pervaded so much of America’s past. But there will also be “jury members” who are not actors.
Jeffery DuBois Peck, great-grandson of Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, and members of Tallahassee’s Alexander Dumas Brickler family, including Dr. A.J. Brickler — all of them descendants of Harriet Tubman, will also sit onstage as members of a grand jury.